DRAGUTIN GOSTUŠKI - a composer
A composer, a musical critic, an art historian, an essayist, a doctor of philosophy
"Pirot is not my hometown, it is my blood. It is for certain that I am sensitive when Pirot is in question and I am very happy when I hear about the success of Pirot or people from this area, when I hear that there are talented and diligent people."

VOJISLAV ILIĆ - a conductor
A professor at the Music Academy, the first Serbian conductor.
"They can take away a lot of things from my life and my long career, but they cannot take away Pirot and my memories. That is why I often come here. See you in Pirot."

Prim. dr ALEKSANDAR JANKOVIĆ - a surgeon, oncologist
"The old Pirot has stayed in my mind, as well as, it has stayed in the minds of the others who have left. The time when there was a promenade in front of the municipality, hanging out on the Nisava's banks, dancing in the old "Dom JNA". The Nišava was our sea.

DRAGOLJUB JANKOVIĆ - a theatre director
Graduated at the Mining-geological Faculty, a pedagogue, a theatre director
"In the street of my childhood, for example, next to the old house, which surprisingly stayed, there is one reddish rock below the rusty gutter, it is roughly hewn, with the recess through which the water flows away after the rain. We often sat around it in a circle and talked and played…I said what I could write. I fear that someone might move the rock one day. It would be as if he had moved me from this world. That's why I'm not going to tell you where it is."

ANDREJA MILENKOVIĆ - a designer
An artist, he used to do pedagogical work and he used to be a journalist. One of the acknowledged designers of the most beautiful stamps in the world. He designed a bank note "Gray dove". "I don't visit Pirot. I come into my hometown. That is an integral part of my life. I come because those are my people, my memories. It would seem too simple if I would say now that I feel homesick…Pirot is the same to me. Even the smell, the people…"

SVETISLAV PEŠIĆ KARI - a basketball coach
A basketball coach, a selector of the national team until 2004.
"Pirot is still a part of me because I am still very close to it. I often come and I try to be at hand to the people from Pirot wherever I am. There are a lot of reasons why other people should know more about Pirot and its inhabitants."

Mr RADMILA TRIČKOVIĆ, an art historian
"I think Pirot lives inside me. I relax and freshen up there. Someone says that is because of company. But for me, it is enough to be just below that sky."

ZDRAVKO ŠOTRA, a movie director
"If it hadn't been for this museum, there wouldn't have been "Zona Zamfirova". This unique building is a rare example where the authenticity is preserved almost ideally. That is why it is the paradise for moviemakers. However, the most precious thing is kindness and friendliness of people who work there. Thank them a lot."

SVETLANA BOJKOVIĆ, an actress
"I think that more beautiful building than Pirot's museum-"Little Rista's shelter" couldn't be found. Thanks the hosts for their hospitality. We really enjoyed in the museum and the beautiful garden which takes us back to the peaceful old times."

The book of impressions of Museum Ponišavlja
The book "Our citizens worldwide", the author Boban Mitić